Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing . . . → Read More: Nine Inch Nails Declares Free Agency

?The ability of creators to parlay their expressive efforts with technology falls within a battleground that accountants, lawyers, and lawmakers dictate with barbed boundaries. That?s as impossible as owning the air itself, which Kembrew McLeod states and identifies clearly.? ?Chuck D, Public Enemy

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The leader of “DrinkorDie,” one of the oldest and largest international software piracy rings on the Internet, was sentenced on Friday to three years and eight months in prison for conspiring to commit copyright infringement, U.S. officials said.